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September 30, 2007

Meet-me: the anti-fearsome virtual world launches

Press coverage of Japan's Meet-me is largely based on avoiding the Second Life shadow. CNN, for example, casts the new world as:

Orderly, pornography-free and safe for children...The operation and design of "meet-me" will be strictly controlled by Transcosmos, ensuring law and order and far more policing and filtering to ban profanity than in "Second Life," which only recently outlawed gambling and is grappling with violations."Japanese aren't going to take to the culture of 'Second Life,"' Hamaoka said. "It's the kind of place where you can get shot in the back as soon as you log on."

Second Life might be too libertarian. And look where it comes from!

the free-spirited anything-goes of "Second Life," created by San Francisco-based Linden Lab.

Reading further down in the article, it's nice to see CNN use a number below one million in describing SL users.